March 2024

WATCH: The Costa del Sol courts the German youth with ‘Shout My Name’ slogan at the Berlin International Travel Fair

THE Costa del Sol is aiming to entice the German ‘Gen-Z’ crowd to its shores this summer with a new slogan that has gone viral: Shout My Name. It comes accompanied by a trendy montage video of young people enjoying some of Malaga’s most iconic locations to an evocative track Queriendo Flojito (Loving Softly) by […]

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Spain has received more than 14,000 irregular migrants so far this year, an increase of 354% on the same period in 2023

A TOTAL of 14,035 irregular migrants have arrived on Spanish shores so far this year, which is a 354% increase on the same period in 2023.  That’s according to the latest figures from the Interior Ministry, as reported by news agency Europa Press, and which show that the relatively low number of 3,094 migrants arrived

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Dig deep: Discover some of Spain’s most important treasures – and could you find some of your own?

THE Treasure of Villena has hit world headlines after researchers claimed it is partly made with iron from outer space. This is the second biggest hoard of gold from the European Bronze Age after the Royal Tombs of Mycenae. It consists of 59 gold, silver and iron objects with a total weight of nearly 10kgs  and was discovered in

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Spanish citizen gang raped while on motorcycle tour through India with her husband

A SPANISH citizen has been attacked and gang raped in the north of India while on a motorcycle tour through the Asian country with her husband.  According to news agency Efe, which cited official sources, three men have so far been arrested on suspicion of participating in the sexual assault on the woman, who is

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7 bedroom Villa for sale in Oviedo with pool garage – € 895,000

Villa Oviedo, Asturias   7 beds   5 baths € 895,000 IMPRESSIVE Detached villa distributed as two homes, in La Manjoya. Located on a 3,100 m2 plot, closed with a vegetable hedge behind a fence or by a concrete block masonry wall. With a pedestrian door and three entrances through automated wrought iron gates with

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Madeleine McCann suspect’s friend tells a German court how he found ‘Head waiter’ Christian Brueckner’s violent rape videos ‘in which he starred’

A FORMER friend of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has told a court how he found two violent porn movies made by him at his Portugal home. Manfred Seyferth, 68, told Braunschweig court how he and a mutual friend Helge Busching discovered the films at his rented home just outside Praia da Luz on the

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Council has to pay ‘millions’ in compensation for illegally-granted building licence approved by law-breaking mayor in 2008 on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A COSTA Blanca council will have to pay the equivalent of a third of its annual budget as compensation for an illegally-approved building that was nodded through in 2008. The current San Fulgencio administration in the south of Alicante province has lost an appeal to the Valencian Supreme Court over having to shell-out €2.6 million

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School bullies ordered by court to pay €4,000 to boy who suffered appalling campaign of verbal abuse and physical attacks in Spain

A SYSTEMATIC bullying campaign against a Santander schoolboy has resulted in a court awarding him €4,000 in compensation. Four children and their parents have been found liable as well as the school for not doing enough to stop the boy being physically assaulted and suffering mental trauma. The financial penalty will also be shared between

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Prosecutors to challenge ‘lenient’ punishment given to convicted rapist Dani Alves by court in Spain

PROSECUTORS are to appeal a four and a half year jail sentence handed down to ex-Barcelona footballer Dani Alves after he was convicted of raping a woman in a night club. A Barcelona court gave the Brazilian player, 40, a lesser jail term because of the mitigating factor that he was going to pay the

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